How Much Must We Compromise Our Values? RL Feb 26 16

Trump

• A Respectful Appeal to Trump Supporters
• Why President Trump Would be a Bigger Disaster Than President Clinton
• Break Glass and Read Before Voting for Trump
• How Come We Haven't Heard From All the People Trump Has Cheated?
• 4 Questions Voters Need Donald Trump To Stop Dodging
• Trump and the Culture War

thinks

• Why The World Still Needs Idealism
• How Much Must We Compromise Our Values?

• Leadership Is More Than Puffery
• The Price We Pay For Bargaining With Iran
• Obama’s Strategic Defense Funding Plan

• Barack Obama, Enemy of the Rule of Law
• Obama’s Unbelievable Strategy to Take Control of the Supreme Court

• The Challenge of Tracking Money Sent to Other Countries From Illegal Immigrants
• It’s Time to Stop Net Neutrality Madness
• Brexit

Campus

• American higher ed vs. European higher ed
• Stanford Students Furious at Idea of Studying Western Civilization
• GOP- Make Colleges Pushing Dopey Degrees & Policies $ Liable
• The State of Literary Education

• Students Interrogated for Organizing Free Speech Event File First Amendment Lawsuit Against University of South Carolina - FIRE
• Talking Political Correctness and Domestic Terrorism at Hillsdale
• VIDEO: Black Student Union Members Assault Breitbart Journalist at Ben Shapiro Protest
• Ben Shapiro Sends Blunt, Profanity-Laced Message to ‘Bloviating Jackasses’ Who Tried to Shut Down Campus Lecture

• University of Missouri Professor Melissa Click Fired for Threatening Student Journalist
• ‘This Is How the Fascists Do It’: Watch How Protesters Try to Shut Down Ben Shapiro’s Campus Lecture

Defense

This Is Huge: CENTCOM Destroyed Evidence

Top Intel Officials: U.S. Faces Highest Terror Threat Level Since 9/11

Intel Agencies: Clinton Emails Match Some of America’s Most Highly Classified Docs

US Admiral Isn’t Buying China’s Attempts To Downplay Militarization In The Pacific

Donald Trump And The F-35

US Did Not Block Re-Election of UN Bureaucrat Despite Claims of IT Transfers to N. Korea, Whistleblower Retaliation

 BtF: politic, media, freedom of, foreign, executive, the mess, economic, migration, 2016, and the othersPolitic

• Guest Post: Will A "Socialist" Government Make Americans Freer?
• Revolution in 2016? Sanders or Trump?
• Fight the soulless juggernaut: Big money, machine politics and the real issue separating Sanders and Clinton - Salon.com
• The Jacksonian Temptation: Trump vs. Cruz

Media

• Reuters Bureau Chief Briefly Detained by Hamas: They Asked Me ‘Polite Questions’
• Article Stealth Edited After Revealing Anita Sarkeesian’s $20,000 Speaking Fee
• Scarborough: ‘Why Are Trump’s Taxes Relevant?’

Freedom of

• Exchanging Anything of Value for Sex Will Soon Be a Crime in Oregon - Hit & Run : Reason.com
• Apple CEO Tim Cook Blames FBI Incompetence for Creating Encrypted iPhone Standoff
• Obama: ‘Big Data’ Medical Research Is Key to Future Cures
• At Least 23 States Now Employ ‘Stingray’ Technology Allowing Police to Grab Your Cell Phone Data, Text Messages and More Without a Warrant
• Twitter Users Can Report Tweets ‘In Disagreement With My Opinion’
• Federal Court Rules You Can Be Arrested Simply For Filming The Police
• Ohio Gun Seller Alleges ‘Widespread’ Government Discrimination
• The Hypocrisy of Big Business Attacking Georgia’s Religious Liberty Bill
• Government Wants Doctors to Screen Americans for Depression
• EXCLUSIVE: Spy photograph reveals first meeting of Twitter's "Trust and Safety Council"
• From Western Union to Apple: When tech battled government
• How Much Land Do The Feds Own In The West?

Foreign

• Nigeria’s Anti-Christian Jihad in Numbers: 11,500 Dead, 13,000 Churches Destroyed
• Rotherham Police Had Sex With Abused Girls And Covered For Relative Sex Groomers
• Islamic State Strikes in ‘Hub City’ for Libyan Migrants
• Christian Converts Flee German Asylum Centres After Muslim Intimidation
• Brussels Time Bomb: EU Is Holding Back Key Legislation For Fear Of Fuelling Brexit
• Hungary’s Orban Says EU-Turkey Migrant Deal An ‘Illusion’
• Australia Unveils ‘Massive’ Increase in Defence Spending to Two Per Cent of GDP
• Argentina’s New President Dumps Marxism to Boost Economy
• ‘I Can’t Believe I’m Free': A Ukrainian POW Returns Home
• Polls open in Iran's parliamentary elections
• Amnesty decries possible Russian deportation of Syrians
• China: New UN resolution will affect China-NKorea exchanges
• "We Are Heading Into Anarchy": Official Says EU Will "Completely Break Down In 10 Days"

Executive

• FBI Scrubs References to Islam from Anti-Radicalization Game After CAIR Complaints
• Obama: Islamic State ‘Not a Caliphate, It’s a Crime Ring’
• John Kerry to Visit Cuba in ‘Next Week or Two’
• Justice Department May Crack Down on Sanctuary Cities
• Federal Labor Board Caught Doing What It Tells Businesses Not To Do
• Executive Overreach: The New Normal In Anti-Gun Politics
• Eric Holder Went By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Birth Name In His Official DOJ Emails
• VA Nurse Pleads Guilty To Stealing Opioids And Replacing Them With Anti-Psychotic Medication
• GAO: No Checks for Obamacare Fraud and There’s Plenty of It
• Kerry: If It Weren’t For My Relationship With Iran’s Zarif, Our Sailors Would Probably Be Hostages

the mess

• How Bad Are Guns? As Bad As Tobacco, According To The Violence Policy Center
• Cecil Effect’ Leads To African Lion Cull: I Blame Ricky Gervais
• Cheap Oil Is Killing The Electric Car
• MTV Star Who Once Campaigned for George W. Bush and Was a Member of the Religious Right Explains ‘How Studying Religion Made Her a Liberal’
• Krauthammer: ‘Huge Mistake’ if GOP Does Anything Other Than ‘Absolutely Stonewall’ on Obama SCOTUS Nominee
• Union Violates Law To Harass Nonmembers For Dues
• Government Housing Officials Took Bribes From Section 8 Applicants
• Utah Senate Votes to Repeal 17th Amendment
• Lawmakers Blast EPA For Holding A Closed-Door Meeting On One Of The Costliest Regulations Ever
• Hostility Toward Religion in America Is ‘Undeniable,’ Report Says

Economic

• Learn Liberty | Bernie Sanders and the Fixed Pie Fallacy
• Business Executives Say Gov’t Regulations to Blame for Thousands of Job Losses
• An Escalating War On Cash Threatens The Stability & Tranquility Of Developed Societies

migration

• Laid Off Disney Worker To Tell Congress His Story No Anomaly | The Daily Caller
• Laid Off Disney Worker Breaks Down in Tears Before Senate Panel
• USCIS Backs Up ICE: ‘God Forbid’ Rubio Gets Elected, He’s a ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’
• Migration Figures Reveal Nearly Half Of Britain’s Job Growth Is Taken By Foreign Nationals
• Poll: Border control still top immigration priority for most voters

2016

• Donald Trump Financed The Gang of 8 | RedState
• Rubio Doubles-Down on H-1B Increase Amid Microsoft Layoffs - Breitbart
• ‘I Guess There Is a Statute of Limitation on Lies’: Watch Rubio Land Blow After Blow on Trump | Video | TheBlaze.com
• Dr. Ben Carson: How to Destroy America, You Do It ‘From Inside’
• Matthews: RNC Chair’s ‘Number One Goal Is To Keep Blacks From Voting’
• Hillary Wants Obama To Nominate A ‘True Progressive’ To The Supreme Court [VIDEO]
• Trump Is Willing To Start A Trade War To Get Mexico To Pay For The Wall [VIDEO]

the others

• Thursday Links
• The Bookworm Beat 2/25/2016 — the “no debate” edition and open thread
• The Bookworm Beat 2/25/16 — the illustrated edition and open thread
• Larwyn's Linx: What would a President Marco Rubio do about immigration?
• Thursday morning links
• 10 Things to Know for Today